Re:SoftBank plans to lend $20B to its CEO and employees amid...
by mrep on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:11AM
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> Globally we are going through a period of deflation.
What? Pretty much every country has inflation [0].
> BOJ can print money ( yen ) and flood the world and the value of the yen would still go up !
That is definitely not true. If they were to print 518,755,944,000,000 Yen (2017 estimate for their gdp) and flood the market with it (say by giving every citizen an equal share as a lump sum a la helicopter money [1]) the value would certainly drop.
> From Softbank's perspective it's a win-win, they get to be owners of really important tech companies and at the same time Japanese companies see a demand surge for their products.
So you're saying Softbank doesn't actually care about their return on investments and is really in it to boost Japanese exports? Softbank is big but there's no way any secondary effects from their vision funds investments will return more money to them than the initial investments. Not only that, but your also effectively saying that they were able to swindle 40 billion dollars from the Saudis and I say swindle because the Saudis don't care 1 bit about Japanese exports and are 100% in it for the initial return on investment.
What? Pretty much every country has inflation [0].
> BOJ can print money ( yen ) and flood the world and the value of the yen would still go up !
That is definitely not true. If they were to print 518,755,944,000,000 Yen (2017 estimate for their gdp) and flood the market with it (say by giving every citizen an equal share as a lump sum a la helicopter money [1]) the value would certainly drop.
> From Softbank's perspective it's a win-win, they get to be owners of really important tech companies and at the same time Japanese companies see a demand surge for their products.
So you're saying Softbank doesn't actually care about their return on investments and is really in it to boost Japanese exports? Softbank is big but there's no way any secondary effects from their vision funds investments will return more money to them than the initial investments. Not only that, but your also effectively saying that they were able to swindle 40 billion dollars from the Saudis and I say swindle because the Saudis don't care 1 bit about Japanese exports and are 100% in it for the initial return on investment.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money